{"id":27287,"date":"2010-09-11T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=27287"},"modified":"2013-12-05T03:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T08:54:27","slug":"tax-collection-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/11\/tax-collection-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Collection in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in an interesting discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2010\/07\/18\/world\/asia\/1247468421481\/tax-free-living-in-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\">tax collection in Pakistan<\/a> by the <em>New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The narrator argues that rich Pakistanis, among others, do not pay taxes, forcing the government to rely on foreign aid.\u00a0 Essentially, then, it is argued, &#8220;[t]he American taxpayer is subsidizing the Pakistani rich.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Since the politicians are rich themselves, and happily evading taxes, there is little will to change the system.<\/p>\n<p>One solution? Send in a team of transgender people to embarass homeowners into paying their property taxes, of course!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=1247468421481&amp;playerType=embed\" height=\"373\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in an interesting discussion of tax collection in Pakistan by the New York Times.\u00a0\u00a0 The narrator argues that rich Pakistanis, among others, do not pay taxes, forcing the government to rely on foreign aid.\u00a0 Essentially, then, it is argued, &#8220;[t]he American taxpayer is subsidizing the Pakistani rich.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Since the politicians are rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,2106,1792,85,304],"class_list":["post-27287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-nation-pakistan","tag-politics","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27287"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59770,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27287\/revisions\/59770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}